updated Fri. April 12, 2024
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ABC Online
April 27, 2018
The head of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) has made a historic appearance before a tribunal to argue intelligence files on East Timor and Indonesia cannot yet be released because his agency is too busy. In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, ASIS Director-General Paul SymonÃâà...
ABC Online
April 27, 2018
Australian intelligence operations that took place during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor should stay secret, the head of the country's overseas spy agency will argue today. ... We've hit a brick wall all the time from our own Government," Mr Cunningham said. "This is something we desperately needÃâà...
New Zealand Doctor Online
April 26, 2018
“New Zealand now has around 41,000 veterans, around 30,000 of those are contemporary veterans from conflicts such as Vietnam, East Timor and Afghanistan. “We're seeing cases of Post-Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI), and many of our younger men and women are returning from operational service inÃâà...
The Diplomat
April 18, 2018
The campaign season is now in its second week in Timor-Leste ahead of another general election on May 12. Last July's election led to a weak minority government that failed to pass its mandate, forcing the country's president in February to call for another ballot. The path to the upcoming general electionÃâà...
The Weekly Times
April 17, 2018
David Gallan, who heads the Bega Valley Advocates for Timor-Leste, says despite this vow of support, when the Indonesian government invaded East Timor in 1975 the Australian government did nothing, even though a third of the population died during 25 years of occupation. “Many Australians feel theyÃâà...
ABC News
April 16, 2018
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta has waded back into the young country's politics ahead of parliamentary elections next month, calling the government a total failure in the past decade in crucial areas such as reducing child malnutrition and providingÃâà...
Seattle Times
April 13, 2018
Tiny East Timor is surrounded by some of the most magnificent and untouched marine life in the world. The question for conservationists and government officials is clear: How can the poorest country in Southeast Asiaboth develop tourism and keep its pristine beauty?
ABC News
April 10, 2018
It will be the second parliamentary election in less than a year for East Timor's fledgling democracy. A minority government formed after elections last July and led by the Fretilin party collapsed in January after its policy program and budget were defeated in parliament. Independence hero Xanana Gusmao,Ãâà...
New York Times
April 8, 2018
Given that, eco-tourism is still not a realistic priority for governmental leaders, though there is hope it will improve. In parts of the country, big-money hotels have already started contracting developments. Government proposals have included turning East Timor into a Macau-like tax haven and casinoÃâà...
Macau Business
March 23, 2018
Macau (MNA) – A legal advisor at East Timor public investment agency TradeInvest Timor-Leste told Macau News Agency (MNA) the Portuguese speaking country government is looking to allow casino gaming licenses in the future. “This is the ideal time for a tourism company to go to Macau and maybeÃâà...
ABC News
March 16, 2018
Three political parties that brought down East Timor's minority government say they will campaign under one umbrella for new elections due in May. The parties in the grouping, which calls itself the Alliance for Change and Progress, on Friday announced their official lists of candidates. East Timor'sÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
March 12, 2018
Continuing its decades of betraying and bullying the impoverished territory's people, the Australian government is still insisting that the billions of dollars' worth of gas beneath the sea be pipelined to Australia's northern city of Darwin, rather than to East Timor. Finalised after year-long negotiations at theÃâà...
Voice of America
March 11, 2018
The treaty is crucial for East Timor's economic future, given its overreliance on diminishing royalties from other resource projects. The government in Dili said the signing of the deal was a“momentous day.” The U.N. has praised the "vision and determination" of both nations in achieving a historic agreement.
The Economist
March 8, 2018
In Germany the Social Democratic Party's membership voted to approve a new coalition government with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, paving the ... Australia and East Timor ended a dispute over their maritime border that had carried on since East Timor's independence from Indonesia in 2002.
NEWS.com.au
March 8, 2018
In December 1975, shortly after Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was deposed, Indonesia invaded East Timor in what was the country's largest military operation, backed by Australia. The new Fraser government believed the operation would be quick and peaceful. Not so. By 1977, the situation wasÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 7, 2018
The Fraser government and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) greeted the report with consternation. Although the Fraser government had not at that stage recognized the incorporation of East Timor into Indonesia, it was on an unambiguous trajectory to do so. The domestic and international reactionsÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 7, 2018
The Turnbull government has stepped up talks with Japan and other countries to resist Donald Trump's new steel tariffs, as the shock resignation of top .... Ms Bishop is in New York for the signing of a maritime treaty with East Timor at the United Nations and is expected to speak by phone with Mr TillersonÃâà...
NEWS.com.au
March 6, 2018
The two countries have suffered a particularly tense relationship since 2012, when it was revealed Australia had been spying on East Timor's cabinet office to gather top secret information that would assist them in negotiations over the Timor Gap. It was on these grounds that the Timorese governmentÃâà...
ABC Online
March 6, 2018
In the past, the Australian Government and the extractive industries have not been explicit about their views on East Timor's claims. Australia has said previously that it is not colluding with the companies, but simply doing what is in Australia's best national interest, with the $25 billion also going to local jobsÃâà...
Nikkei Asian Review
March 5, 2018
SINGAPORE -- After a saga lasting nearly two decades, Australia will on March 6 sign a boundary treaty with East Timor that will allow the Southeast ... The agreement should enhance Australia's standing with its neighbors ahead of the March 17-18 summit, though one notable head of government will notÃâà...
The New Daily
March 4, 2018
Relations between the countries became strained in 2017 as Australia sought a boundary aligned with its continental shelf, but East Timor argued the border should lie halfway between them – placing much of the gas field under its control. Ms Bishop will also attend a meeting for the Kimberley Process,Ãâà...
The Cairns Post
March 2, 2018
His 18-year military career included six years in the Australian Army and 12 in the Navy, including a deployment to East Timor. The father of ... “These are highly skilled, highly trained individuals and the government's invested lots of money in them, so we're trying to help close that gap.” Rebecca hopes theÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 2, 2018
Murdoch was posted to Jakarta in late 1998, where he was on hand to report on the tumultuous events in Indonesia and East Timor. "His performance ... Lindsay won his third Walkley for breaking the Baby Gammy story in 2014 which prompted the Thai government to legislate to ban commercial surrogacy.
The National Interest Online
March 2, 2018
It has been nearly twenty years since a multinational peacekeeping force deployed to East Timor (as it was then known) to stop the violence and ... Many expected the two titans of Timorese politics, Fretilin and CNRT, to maintain the status quo “consensus” politics by forming another unity government.
Newshub
March 1, 2018
... Ottoman forces at Gallipoli, no New Zealand government has ever officially acknowledged that the Armenian Genocide took place, and that needs to change. We recognise the Jewish Holocaust of World War II, the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian genocide, and closer to home, the East Timor genocide.
The Conversation AU
February 28, 2018
I wanted to know what happened to the projects and the people from a decade of aid work spanning East Timor, Iraq and South Sudan. I bought airline ... We'd trained people on how to maintain them, but the government that had agreed to provide the spare parts appeared to have had a change of heart.
The Diplomat
February 27, 2018
On May 12, Timorese voters will go to the polls for the second time in ten months to elect the country's parliament, as the seventh constitutional government has failed to gain parliamentary support. The early election became inevitable after the political deadlock that has paralyzed the young democracy,Ãâà...
The Canberra Times
February 26, 2018
Unfortunately for the government, Joyce's resignation and replacement as leader has not ended the troubles stemming from his affair. ... Australia and East Timor will sign a landmark agreement to carve up revenue from the $50 billion Greater Sunrise oil and gas field in the Timor Sea next week amidÃâà...
ABC Online
February 20, 2018
For a man held up as a national hero, relatively little is written about Nicolau dos Reis Lobato — especially outside East Timor. But some Timorese are hoping one chapter — about Lobato's death — might soon be complete. He was the country's first prime minister after East Timor declared independence inÃâà...
Radio Australia
February 20, 2018
The East Timor Government is leading a fresh push to find the body of former prime minister Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, who was shot dead in 1978 by Indonesian ... He was the country's first prime minister after East Timor declared independence in 1975, a year after Portugal withdrew as its colonial power.
Daily Free Press (blog)
February 19, 2018
East Timor is currently mired in a political stalemate, as the current government led by Mari Alkatiri has been unable to pass its budget plan. Consequently, President Francisco “Lu-Olo” Guterres dissolved the parliament and called for an election in May of this year. He said in a statement: “For a democracyÃâà...
The Mercury
February 9, 2018
The State Government has submitted a bid to the Federal Government to have the HMAS Darwin scuttled off the East Coast in order to serve as an ... It had sailed more than a million nautical miles around the world, taking in 50 countries and undertaking missions to the Middle East, East Timor and theÃâà...
New Matilda
February 8, 2018
The Turnbull Government will be watching with interest and angst for a soon-to-be-released book which sheds light on an extraordinary chapter of Australian-East Timor history, writes Alex Mitchell. Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery has written an explosive account of his legal battle to secure the rights ofÃâà...
The Australian
February 2, 2018
The Chinese government is funding sensitive computer and communications networks in South Pacific nations, stoking fears that Australian government intelligence ... China has also gifted computers to the Fiji Ministry of Defence and a $US8.12m building to East Timor's Ministry of Defence and Security.
Macauhub
February 1, 2018
USAID will support the development of tourism in Timor-Leste (East Timor) under a project called “Turizmu ba Ema Hotu” or “Tourism for All,” to be ... This project will complement the Timor-Leste government's national tourism policy, which aims to attract 200,000 tourists a year by 2030 and add 15,000 jobsÃâà...
The West Australian
December 31, 1999
The Bayu Undan field, which has supplied much-needed cash to East Timor since 2006, will not have enough gas for the Darwin LNG plant by 2022 or 2023 ... players has been the independence of the commission and the Australian Government in the decision to send Sunrise gas to East Timor or Darwin.
